Murder Goes Mumming

Madoc and Janet Rhys Mysteries Series, Book 2

De: Charlotte MacLeod

Narrado por: William Dufris

Murder turns a Christmas trip into a working holiday for Mountie Madoc Rhys and his bride-to-be in this holiday whodunit from the "cozy mystery queen" (Early Bird Books).

Though he may not look the part, Madoc Rhys is a Mountie - and his keen sense of detection tells him it's time to ask Janet Wadman to marry him. They have just gotten engaged when Christmas rolls around, and Janet's boss invites them to his family estate for a last holiday fling before Janet leaves her job. After a long helicopter ride, they are at Graylings, ancestral home of the Condryckes, a family so strange that Canada's shortest Mountie fits right in. There is a psychic old woman, an erudite butler, and a family patriarch who is the spitting image of an English country squire. And when the elderly Mrs. Condrycke is found murdered, Janet will be glad she brought Madoc along. Though civilization is far away, when there is a Mountie in the house, justice is close at hand.

©1981 Alisa Craig (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Unfortunate reading of medium MacLeod

This is not the best MacLeod but the reading turns her witty, sardonic novel into sentimental drivel all too often. The narrator's difficulties with women's voices doesn't help. MacLeod deserved a lot better; what decent producer doesn't make sure the narrator can pronounce the detective's name?

A classic Christmas country-house mystery — in Canada

During a Christmas visit to an elegant manor house in Canada, the appearance of a ghostly ship on the bay heralds misfortune and sudden death.
Inspector Madoc Rhys (pronounced “Riss” by the narrator, which I’m still not used to hearing since I’ve always thought it was “Reese”) and his fiancée Jenny solve the perplexing case together.
However, the narrator does do a nice Welsh accent, I think.